Category Archives: Amazon

Amazon Kindle Fire surges ahead in Android tablet use:

By doris | Published: February 6, 2012

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com A new report analyzing app usage purports to show that, in just three months, Amazon’s Kindle Fire has dethroned the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the top Android tablet — at least when it comes to people actually spending time on their devices. Flurry Analytics compared application sessions among all Android tablets [...]

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Amazon’s holiday best-sellers: ‘Steve Jobs,’ Kindle

By doris | Published: December 30, 2011

Full Story at Amazon’s holiday best-sellers include ‘Steve Jobs,’ Kindle – Dec. 29, 2011 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, said its series of Kindle e-readers and tablets were the top three most-popular purchases in December. As the company stated earlier in the month, customers bought more than one million Kindles [...]

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Tablets, e-readers closing book on ink-and-paper era

By doris | Published: December 29, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Tablet computers and electronic readers promise to close the book on the ink-and-paper era as they transform the way people browse magazines, check news or lose themselves in novels. “It is only a matter of time before we stop killing trees and all publications become digital,” Creative Strategies president and principal [...]

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Put e-gifts in virtual stockings this holiday

By doris | Published: December 19, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Digital gifts may be tough to wrap. But they can be more convenient for both givers and recipients. An album from iTunes or a Kindle e-book from Amazon have become viable gift options for shoppers, especially on the eve of a holiday or for people living far away. Digital [...]

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Amazon selling over one million Kindles a week

By doris | Published: December 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com Amazon.com said on Thursday it is selling more than one million Kindle devices a week, an unusual disclosure from the largest Internet retailer that comes in the wake of some negative reviews of its new Kindle Fire tablet. Amazon said customers are buying “well over” one million Kindles per week. This [...]

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Amazon planning Kindle Fire updates to fix complaints

By doris | Published: December 12, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Kindle Fire, the stripped-down tablet computer that is emerging as perhaps the most popular rival to Apple’s iPad, will be getting an update soon to address some early user complaints, Amazon said. Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener said an operating-system update will improve speed and touchscreen controls and will give [...]

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How many Kindle Fires are being returned to Amazon?

By doris | Published: December 4, 2011

Full Story at Tech.fortune.cnn.com All happy Kindle Fire customers, to paraphrase Tolstoy, are the same. Unhappy customers, however, are unhappy in their own way. To get a feel for what makes them unhappy — and how unhappy they are — we spent some time Saturday morning reading the Kindle Fire feedback on Amazon.com. There were [...]

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Yes, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is a $199 Android tablet

By doris | Published: September 28, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Before Amazon’s press event even started, the big news slipped out of the bag: The Amazon Kindle Fire will be a 7-inch Android tablet with a $199 price tag. Then Amazon’s Jeff Bezos went on stage and unveiled it, showing off its movie playback capability and other media features.As rumors had [...]

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Amazon’s Android tablet is coming soon

By doris | Published: September 24, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The news that Amazon is building its own Android-based tablet has been an open secret for months. Next week, the mythical device is likely to be unleashed. Amazon’s (AMZN, Fortune 500) PR firm sent an invitation to journalists midday Friday announcing a press conference in New York [...]

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Calif. lawmakers approve Amazon tax compromise

By doris | Published: September 11, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a compromise bill that delays California’s effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state’s sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes. The state Assembly approved AB155 on a bipartisan, 59-8 [...]

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Next Amazon Kindle is $250 7-inch Android reader, says TechCrunch

By doris | Published: September 5, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com TechCrunch’s MG Siegler just released a report that he had not only seen but in fact played with the impending — but not confirmed — Kindle tablet from Amazon. The key data points, according to the tech biz site: It’s a 7-incher, it runs Amazon’s version of the Android OS, it’s [...]

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Amazon temporarily suspends sales of Nintendo 3DS

By doris | Published: July 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Amazon on Monday temporarily suspended sales of the Nintendo 3DS, the 3-D handheld video game console, on its popular marketplace website. A note Monday on the page for at least one version of the device said the item was under review and not currently offered by Amazon. It could [...]

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